what is at stake and on trial is
police accountability
policy culpability
conscious and unconscious bias
rhetoric vs real change
retribution of wrong/harm done to human life
restoration of public confidence in justice system and equality
police brutality
the politics of humanity
injustice
inequality
inequity
iniquity
common sense
peace enforcement
the value of life of darker pigmentation
authoritarian power of peace officers
blind allegiance
privilege
ignorance
denial
dignity
integrity
fear of speaking up when you see something wrong
the power of the people
reasonable doubt and presumption of innocence-
in context of, and when applied to,
a law enforcer and white pigmented peoples
vs a regular citizen of lower class and darker pigmentation
validation of generational screams at the different policing in urban communities
White America
America’s systems
the moral standing of America worldwide
and where we go into the near future as
Culture
Fool, Money is the Fuel
laws always take time to change
and then self-interest or public outcry…
then a new law surfaces over night
justice is slow by choice, and choice alone
that’s why “it takes time” is so patronizing!
Don’t Bother
you don’t have enough time to hear the story of my pain
so don’t ask
you don’t have enough energy to care about my pain
so don’t offer
you don’t have enough heart to understand my pain
so don’t say you feel me
you don’t have enough love to offer that would assuage my pain
so love yourself, instead
I’ll only rub off and wear on you
Benefit by Association
I’m glad Georgia is finally changing from not having hate crime laws
it’s unfortunate that the continued misfortunes of blacks created that change
it’s ironic that it wasn’t black people that first benefit from it, as to give closure and true justice to those families
that said, I’m happy that the Asian Americans will get their fair chance at justice
Religiously Political
we go against God
yet claim to act in God’s will
we go against Jesus
and then ask what would Jesus do
we blame the Devil
but better the Devil you know,
because we act directly in his favor
appealing more to our lesser nature
with things done in the dark,
we wish to never see the light of day
while we act the act of civility and decorum in the public’s eye
but isn’t that politics?
everyone having a closet full of skeletons and agendas?
so what does that make us as people, as a society?
better yet,
if Angels and Demons were Congress
and God was the government
and if the two party system was split between the Devil and Jesus
who would be the Democrat,
and who would be the Republican
and which party would we as a nation choose?
which would you as an individual choose?
or would you claim independent?
given our disdain and demonizing of free thinkers,
is Purgatory full of Independents?
would the often neglected Grass Roots be our Spirits?
is the Constitution the Bible?
is the Bill of Rights our “Psalms”
and the Amendments our “Proverbs”?
is each legislation and law passed the “New Testament”?
and what Idol would be President?
oh, dumb question right?
“Money” of course!
and the poor and oppressed are supposed to be the meek that shall inherit it all, do I have that right?
well if that is true,
then why do the powerful act in self interest,
reaping every immediate benefit,
preordaining instant gratification,
if they know that greater gifts and worldly inheritance is gained the complete opposite way, in the long suffering of it all?
or was that just some more religiously politicized rhetoric designed to subjugate, suppress, and quell as many uprisings from the bottom as possible
in order to assure their position with as less resistance and violence as possible-
conditioning being the preferred methodology of systemic and mass population control
oh! I get politics and religion now!
Don’t Take it Personal, it’s Just What They Do
it seems like such a long time since the mass building of railroads
opiates, grains of rice, and the Rockefellers
but welcome back to the mainstream hate, bigotry, and prejudice
White America never forgot who you were to them
you just may have forgot who you were to them
they were just usually too consumed with pummeling us is all
us, as in, Black America
and you may benefit from the ground hours we already put in for you
because we never had the benefit of a break, so we never forgot
but never fear, they’re reminding you
I’m sorry you’re shocked
but swallow your pre-workout formula of protesting and get your practice in
so you can join back in the game of American life and the minority/melanin experience
they’ll hear you, but will not listen
the laws are just for perception sake, for you to get it all out of your system
you know, the right to assemble, freedom of speech, equality for all etc.
after while, they’ll see to it that you get tired of talking to a wall
and they’all expect you to give up long before they do
after all, shit rolls down the hill and you are fighting uphill
that disadvantage will never tilt, and the day, if it shall ever happen to get close to a tilt towards a balance
then be wary of that day, because this is nothing
nothing but practice
but don’t take it personal, they know nothing else
on the evolutionary scales, they are still children
only knowing how to take in order to have
and they will take from their selves as quick as they would you
you can almost do nothing against that kind of barbarism
so don’t take it personal, they’d do better if the knew better…I think?